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LaTeX auf der Ubucon 2009

Die Konferenz für die deutschsprachige Ubuntu Linux Community “Ubucon” wird vom 19. bis 22. Oktober 2009 zum dritten Mal stattfinden, in der Georg August Universität in Göttingen.   Das Konferenzprogramm enthält drei LaTeX-Veranstaltungen: LaTeX im Jahr 2009: Vorstellung neuer TeX … Continue reading

04. January 2025 by stefan
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LyX 2.0.0 beta 4 and LyX 1.6.9 released

The fourth beta version of LyX 2.0.0 has been released. This is probably the last beta version. Testers of of previous betas are encouraged to test the new version. The current stable release for any serious work remains 1.6., 1.6.9 … Continue reading

04. January 2025 by stefan
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DANTE Frühjahrstagung 2021

The following text is in German because it’s about the German language user group meeting 2021. Im vergangenen Jahr sind leider beide DANTE-Tagungen wegen der Pandemie ausgefallen. Dieses Jahr wird die Frühjahrstagung stattfinden, jedoch wegen der Kontaktbeschränkungen komplett online. Anmelden … Continue reading

07. March 2021 by stefan
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goLaTeX forum updated

Auch auf Deutsch / in German: TeX.co In April I did a pretty big software update on goLaTeX.de, and added more features since then. What’s new? For example: The display is automatically adjusted, so it’s much better readable on smart … Continue reading

22. May 2020 by stefan
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LaTeX ebooks for $5

Also this year, Packt Publishing sells ebooks for just $5 each, during some days. This includes my two LaTeX books: The LaTeX Cookbook More than 90 hands-on recipes to easily cook a variety of LaTeX documents. Gallery of some examples: … Continue reading

17. December 2019 by stefan
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Supporting users on LaTeX.org

I’m on a carribbean cruise for three weeks and don’t have so much time as before for answering questions on LaTeX.org. Especially since I actually do work here, on improving the WiFi onboard the cruise ship. It would be great … Continue reading

03. May 2019 by stefan
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Netzwerk-Jobs in Hamburg und der ganzen Welt

Tl;dr: es gibt da ein paar Jobangebote. Nach meinem Mathestudium wollte ich ja erstmal in die Ferne und bin als IT Officer auf ein Kreuzfahrtschiff gestiegen. Leben und Arbeiten in der Besatzung mit der Technik war spannend und die Reisen … Continue reading

20. November 2018 by stefan
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Förderung durch DANTE

DANTE, der Verein deutschsprachiger TeX-Anwender, fördert weiterhin TeX-Webseiten wie TeX-Internetforen und mehr. Installiert und betreut werden zwei Server von mir. Die finanzielle Unterstützung von DANTE deckt den kompletten Betrieb zweier Server ab, von Hardware-Miete und Gigabit-Internet-Anbindung bis hin zu Backup-Space … Continue reading

15. September 2018 by stefan
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What happens on StackExchange

An intensive discussion is going on here: https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com. Let me summarize, what I read: TeX.SE got a new design There was a design discussion before, but no TeX user suggestion has been considered There are a lot of opinion and … Continue reading

12. August 2018 by stefan
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LyX 2.3.0 released

LyX 2.3.0 has been released. I listed the quite a lot new features already here: LyX 2.3 release candidate with new features So I will be brief. 🙂 There’s no Windows (binary) version yet, I guess it will come soon. … Continue reading

17. March 2018 by stefan
Categories: IDEs and Editors | 1 comment

Long time no see

The blog is not abandoned… I just used to post here recently: TeX talk TeXwelt blog (German) Probably you saw it in the TeXample blog aggregator. Who cares anyway 🙂 still I enjoy writing and sharing news.  

17. March 2018 by stefan
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LaTeX \pagecolor broken

With current LaTeX (TL 2017) \pagecolor{…} does not work. According to the tex-live mailing list, it can by fixed by \makeatletter \edef\GPT at pagecolortrue{\global\unexpanded\expandafter{\GPT at pagecolortrue}} \edef\GPT at pagecolorfalse{\global\unexpanded\expandafter{\GPT at pagecolorfalse}} \makeatother The \newif has been changed with an overlooked … Continue reading

18. June 2017 by stefan
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